Blogging My Life...
I wouldn't call myself an uber-geek, but I definitely strive towards that label. That being said, my wife was in my office one day and I had to earn some "husband points." I forget why I needed points, but all married men always need to tally up the "points" whenever they can.
So in my geek way, I decided to label her email folder. The folder I keep her emails related to her and us in, as ♥ Yisha. To do so, I looked up the HTML entity for a heart and copied it into my mail folder name. It looks like this in HTML entities ♥
Not only did it bring her folder at the top of my personal folders (i.e. making her #1 to me), it also put a heart near her name (i.e. showing all that affectionate stuff).
Only problem with me blogging this is that she will now read it and I will likely lose all the points I gained from doing it in the first place, plus get point deductions. So I am sacrificing my points to help other geek husbands out there.
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lol, I hope I don't get discovered via this comment and then loose points for copying someone else...
Posted by: todd g | March 19, 2009 1:32 PM
Very clever! I hope you don't end up losing points :)
Posted by: Valarie Bastek | March 19, 2009 1:33 PM
Bah ahaha.
Nice going barry!
♥
Posted by: Brett Tabke | March 19, 2009 1:38 PM
What about helping geek wives earn points for non-geek husbands? ;-)
Posted by: Nicole | March 19, 2009 1:41 PM
I put "1_" in front of more important filters in Gmail, so putting the ♥ bumps it up to the very top. Thanks!
Posted by: pchieng | March 19, 2009 1:45 PM
Barry that is as geeky a husband point as you ever will earn!
Is there any chance you can work out a way to do something that appears on EBay, as THAT is the only place MY wife would see it !
Posted by: Old Welsh Guy | March 19, 2009 2:01 PM
Thanks guys... I must have did that 6 months ago and just thought it would be a good blog post today...
Long time no speak, Old Welsh Guy. Hope all is well!
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | March 19, 2009 2:03 PM
I'm sure that no points will be lost. It takes a very creative geek, who really loves his wife to come up with that. Blogging about it doesn't take away from that, but it might make you uber ;-)
Posted by: Rena | March 19, 2009 2:09 PM
AWWW, you don't need any points :) But since you are trying,if you really want to score some husband points jewelry is always nice ;)
Posted by: wife | March 19, 2009 2:51 PM
So sweet! The other day I SSH'ed from my laptop while my my wife was on the MAC in the basement. I used the command 'say' followed by text. Like:
>say hello there this is your computer talking
I freaked her out good, she screamed up to me "Ron the computer is talking to me". We had a good laugh. Try it out !
Posted by: Ron | March 19, 2009 3:59 PM
Nice one Barry. Of course I'm using Microsoft software so this doesn't work for me.
Posted by: Robert | March 20, 2009 2:58 AM